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The word is that there are developments in so-called e-books that may give this neglected Internet area new life. Or not _ as my title asks: would YOU read one?
My own answer is: So far, they are not for me. But in the future? Wellll, maaaaybe! Just barely, I can imagine a circumstance wherein I might. Hint: The key is in a remark in the commentary, something about "a stack of books." *s* You'll see if you go.
When I was young, and I was once, we had a constant supply of audio books for my grndmother, whose sight had been seriously damaged by diabetes. These were large 33 1/3 rpm records my parents obtained from a library by mail. Audio books are great for those who are visually impaired. One might think that others would have little use for them _ but I have a great collection of Shakespeare's plays in the form of vinyl recordings, and my elder daughter gets audio books from her library and listens to them during any long drive, whether that's a commute or trip via the logjam of Los Angeles roadways or a cross-country drive to visit relatives or participate in conventions.
Your locality probably has the equivalent of this: There's an organization here in Arizona _ Sun Sounds _ which "provides audio access to information to people in the Southwest who cannot read print because they ahve a disability." That includes text books. Those who voice the voices for its hundreds of oral offerings all are volunteers. It's something I had thought perhaps to do but, to my shame, never got around to doing _ not yet, anyway.
But e-books? Who needs or wants an e-book!! Wellll, you may be surprised.
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Besides, people spend entirely too much time on computers as it is. For work is one thing, but when all you do is go home and sit in front of it for hours on end......ya got issues.
Or worse yet, it's all you do period. Time to shut it down, drag yourself out into the fresh air and actually try.......~looks around conspiratorily~.....talking to real people. *L*
http://www.bookcrossing.com/
The new cafe's scheme may be different, I don't know yet exactly what they're planning.
A real book is something you can hold and cherish in the future not bits and bytes ,something flighty and insubstantial.
I love my real books and wouldn't change them for the world.
Can't do that with a lap top.
as for ebooks- i think it will be less about having them online and more on your PDAs/Ipods/etc. that they will become popular.
Until now the technology has not been available to do this. In fact I originally thought of using EEPROMs (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memorys). I have always thought this to be viable, and still do. Now that the technology is available and I've 'published' the idea on here (and therefore can prove it's mine), if there's anyone out there with a bit of cash and a sense of adventure.......... call me. :o)
http://www.sonystyle.com/...0reader:corp_read_gglsrch
As for inventions and ebooks, with recent development of displays that are flexible and curvable and paper-thin and with other similar facets that are a far cry from laptops and even current hand-held devices, publishers COULD go directly to a new form of "book." Add a chip, a touch-sensitive or gesture control, and some form of power supply, and hey presto.
But I still can't envision myself using one for some of my favorite reading situations, for instance: in bed moments before I go to sleep, or while i spoon up my morning cereal, or while I stuff down a hurried lunch. Not to mention laying out yet another few hundred quid for yet another device. Call me Dermot the Dinosaur if you wish, but the only thing wrong with books now is my eyes _ and e-devices only add to that problem.
if more people read them we'd use less paper
Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)